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Sharia LawTo what extent does the Sharia provide complete guidance for Muslims today? (20marks).Sharia law is a guide for Muslims revealing the road to submission. There are four sources tothis guidance the Quran, which is the word of God, the Sunna, which is the word ofMuhammad the Prophet. Then there is a ijma (consensus) and qiyas (analogy).Some schools of fiqh (the science of law) which support qiyas believe in the role of reason inijtihad. Other schools are opposed to qiyas, they do not approve of any role for reason,neither in the form of qiyas nor in any other form. These people are called modernists andtraditionalists.Traditionalists only trust the Quran and the Sunna, they know both inside out. They arguethese are articles of faith and their regulations are timeless because God's word is eternaltherefore the word of God ­ the Quran is eternal too.They believe that today Muslims can find resolutions to new situations using both articles.For example to decide upon inhaling cocaine the Quran declares from the example of wine,that anything that intoxicates you and give hallucinations is Haram, so cocaine is Haram. Thetraditionalist's fear that in a situation such as this individual judgement will lead to divisionand a lack of unity destroying the submission and Islam. They stick to what they feel theyknow. The Ulema (religious scholars) are the ones able to decide upon what the ijma(consensus) and qiyas involve. The Ulema tend to be traditionalists.A large extent of the reason industrial judgement is not permitted by Ulema is due to Osamabin Laden. He was a political Muslim, not an Alim (scholar) who use his own judgement tocreate ijtihad. It all went badly as he manipulated verses in the articles to interpret what hewanted people to believe, for example he tried to get Muslims to abandon westerncivilisation calling it `the enemy of Islam' and `Corrupt'. This all caused great conflict withthe traditionalists, closing the gates of ijtihad.In debate with the traditionalists are the modernists who argue that the gates of ijtihad mustbe reopened. They are influence by modern idea, and believe traditional ideas need tochange and become relevant. Modernists like Sardar argue that Sharia Law doesn't providecomplete guidance as it is outdated. It doesn't include medicine and technology changes.The Ulema are all men who are unaware of these changes. Sardar wants the Ulema to bemore broadened, to include Muslim scientists and Physiologists for example, people whounderstand the world in an intellectual sense as well as religious.Because Sharia is outdated it can clash on a Muslims geographical area. Muslims areexpected to follow the land in which they live, not just via your beliefs, for example inEngland, they wouldn't allow a punishment such as cutting off a thief's hands. Some of theSharia even applies to the desert which is only where people at the time of the Sharia lawenforcement lived, thousands of years ago. Now many live elsewhere and so land rules etcneed not apply.Many feminist modernists would argue that the Sharia law not only needs to be broadenedscientifically, but also sexually. All the Ulema are men, thus they think like men and have nofeminine views and put their own sex first. If women were involved then Sharia might beSteph Wade

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A women inSaudi Arabia was stoned to death for adultery.....her husband had died 8 years before this.Yet a man can remarry. These morals are all wrong.Finally modernists see federal law change all the time due to different circumstances. So whyis it that Sharia can't be altered to fit in with the modern world? For example at least theCatholic Pope is aware of condoms and then has said Catholics should not use them.…read more